Bitglass for Box

Only Bitglass provides comprehensive, real-time data protection from any device - for Box, as well as your organization’s entire suite of cloud applications. Whether you want to restrict unwanted external sharing, encrypt data prior to upload, control data leakage, gain insights into suspicious user activity, or all of the above, Bitglass’ market-leading data protection technologies provide the control you need.

Data Protection

Malware and ATP

User Behavior Analytics

Identity

Architecture Overview

Deployment

Data Protection

Bitglass’ integrated, high-performance DLP engine gives you the flexibility to build policies from scratch, pull from the extensive Bitglass catalog, import policies from premises-based DLP solutions, or integrate via ICAP. The Citadel DLP engine is paired with a wide range of remediation actions, built to allow you to safely extend access to sensitive data, even in risky contexts. Actions include dynamic application of encryption or rights management (DRM), redaction of sensitive content, watermarking and tracking, quarantine, share removal, and blocking.

Contextual access control ensures that appropriate access to Box is provisioned based on the context by which the user is accessing the application. Policies can be defined based on access method (browser or native app), device (managed vs unmanaged), location (by country or IP address range), group, and more. Administrators can choose to block, allow, or provide intermediate levels of access to Office by pairing access control policies with DLP policies.

Harbor Cloud Encryption is the only offering on the market that leverages full-strength, 256-bit FIPS-compliant encryption with 256-bit initialization vectors, supporting both field-level encryption, for apps like Salesforce and file-level encryption, for any cloud application, including Box. The unique, patented technology preserves application functionality such as search and sort, simultaneously providing data protection and an unchanged user experience. The system integrates with a wide variety of key management systems via KMIP, in addition to the native key management option which is based on Amazon’s CloudHSM.

Malware and ATP

As Box increases in popularity, its attractiveness to bad actors increases, making it a more popular delivery vehicle for malware. Bitglass’ anti-malware and Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) powered by Cylance, incorporate the best of both signature/heuristic anti-malware scanning from more than 60 leading vendors to identify known malware, with ATP to stop the spread of unknown and zero day attacks, ensuring that your Box deployment never becomes a proliferation point for the spread of malware across your managed or BYO devices.

User Behavior Analytics

Through the combination of API and proxy-based control over cloud access, Bitglass provides full visibility into every transaction conducted in Box. User behavior analytics, focused on suspicious activity detection, are built on that visibility and reported via alerts, dashboards, and SIEM integration.

Moreover, Bitglass provides cross-app visibility, empowering you to discover suspicious and abnormal behavior. If a user accesses Slack from LA, and then an hour later tries to access Box from NYC, Bitglass can flag and prevent that login.

Identity

Bitglass is the only CASB to offer built-in IDaaS service capabilities, allowing you to consolidate your entire cloud security strategy into a single platform. Built-in capabilities include single sign-on for both protected apps, as well as any application that supports SAML for SSO, Active Directory synchronization and authentication, SCIM support, SMS and email multi-factor authentication. Bitglass also integrates seamlessly with any identity management system, including Ping, Okta, OneLogin, ADFS, and more. Bitglass dual SAML termination ensures that the strength of SAML SSO is preserved, without the added phishing risk that comes with some proxy architectures.

Whether you use the Bitglass IDaaS or integrate with another system, Bitglass can enforce step-up authentication at any time, based on suspicious activities. For example, if a user logs in simultaneously from two different devices, Bitglass can force a re-authentication, requiring multiple factors.

Architecture Overview

When it comes to securing data in the public cloud, real-time data protection is a necessity. Many CASB solutions rely solely upon API-based scans for data protection, leaving gaping security holes: API notification systems can take tens of minutes, if not more, to inform a CASB of sensitive data upload or download. In practice, this means that a data policy violation might occur – a user downloading customer PII to their personal laptop – and that violation might not be detected until it’s too late. Only a hybrid CASB approach, leveraging both APIs and inline proxies, can ensure total data protection.

Bitglass’ approach is powered by its Omni multi-protocol proxies, enabling secure data access for both managed and unmanaged devices in an easy-to-deploy agentless model. Omni’s reverse proxy enables secure data access from any device, without requiring any agents or certificates, and with no changes to the user experience.

Omni’s reverse proxy is uniquely resilient, powered by Bitglass’ proprietary AJAX-VM technology. Designed to proxy rich SaaS applications, AJAX-VM works in any web browser, without additional software. Unlike traditional reverse proxies, which break dynamic client-side functions, the AJAX-VM rewrites links in static server-delivered content, while also automatically wrapping browser-executed code. This allows it to intermediate and secure data in all transactions initiated by the app on the client side.

Bitglass’ proxies are paired with API integration with Box. API integration allows for visibility and control of data-at-rest, including discovery of sensitive data and quarantine, share removal, encryption and more to sensitive data in Box.

Deployment

Bitglass’ multi-protocol proxy can be deployed in minutes, without the pain that comes with traditional agent-based CASB or MDM solutions. Setup is simple and straightforward, with nothing to install for either admins or users.

There are two deployment options - cloud and premises. The Bitglass cloud service is hosted globally on AWS infrastructure with auto-scaling and replication. Its fully redundant architecture ensures constant uptime – Bitglass guarantees a 99.9% SLA, and greater than 99.99% historical performance. The global load-balancing of Bitglass’ security application results in no perceptible introduction of latency to the Box experience for end users. Enterprises may also choose to deploy the software on premises, or leverage a hybrid model, depending on security, compliance and data residency needs.